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NEW DELHI: Do you know your CEO well enough? He might be fudging his university degree or has been sacked in a previous job with a history of financial irregularities or put simply, he or she can be a plain fraudster. With cases of frauds cropping day after day and integrity of senior executives in the line of fire, India, Inc . has started asking questions about their senior management recruits. Though, as head-hunters confess, it is just a beginning and there have been cases where top corporate execs, despite having had a dark past history, are enjoying plush salaries.

Raju Reddy grew IT services company Sierra Atlantic from scratch to a 6,000-employeestrong company and sold it to Hitachi Consulting last January. A little over a year later, he boarded online ticket booking startup Red Bus in a new role - as a non-executive director with the specific charge of guiding its CEO Phanindra Sama . "We were looking for an expert with the experience of scaling up a business," says Sama. Many startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs)

HYDERABAD: Vikram Akula has handpicked about 40 employees of SKS Microfinance for his just-launched mobile banking venture in what is being seen as an example of unusual cooperation between a firm and its estranged founder. Akula, who quit as executive chairman of SKS on November 23, selected these employees after an agreement with SKS, a senior company official said. "All the handpicked employees were relieved on December 1," he said, adding that Akula is not allowed to poach any more people.

Leading a top search firm at a time when leadership of CEOs is being questioned can be a daunting task, but more so, if the firm you lead also happens to be the first port of call for companies looking for CEOs. But Kevin Connelly, CEO, SpencerStuart , takes it in his stride because he lords over one of the best CEO hunting packs in town. And it's these very partners from the pack who moved Connelly to the CEO's cabin in October 2012, after the Irishman completed a six year stint as the chairman of the firm.

HYDERABAD: Headhunters are walking hand in hand with Indian multinationals. As Indian companies conquer new geographies, they are relying on home-grown CEO search engines to acquire talent, preferably global, to man their overseas operations. Also, there is a hunt on for CEOs with global experience, particularly in the areas of retail, aviation, urban transportation and infrastructure, to head operations within India. "With the economy on an overdrive, there is a definite trend of cross-pollination of talent.

NEW DELHI: An economy in the fast lane has busted open the exclusive club of corporate bosses earning salaries of over $1 million a year in India, with more executives entering it as strong profit growth and a talent shortage forces firms to reward top managers. The number of executives earning more than Rs 4.5 crore a year in pay jumped 54% in fiscal year 2010, with some four dozen new names joining the club, expanding it to 130 members, an ET study of annual disclosures of all publicly listed companies has revealed.

NEW DELHI: There is no dearth of opportunities for the top dogs of India Inc. This was proven yet again on Friday when, within hours of Wipro joint CEOs Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani resigning from their posts, headhunters across the country received calls from both Indian companies and multinationals asking if the two were 'available' for hire. These included executive search firms like Korn/Ferry International, Stanton Chase, EMA Partners and Head Hunters India.

HYDERABAD: Headhunters are walking hand in hand with Indian multinationals. As Indian companies conquer new geographies, they are relying on home-grown CEO search engines to acquire talent, preferably global, to man their overseas operations. Also, there is a hunt on for CEOs with global experience, particularly in the areas of retail, aviation, urban transportation and infrastructure, to head operations within India. "With the economy on an overdrive, there is a definite trend of cross-pollination of talent.

NEW DELHI: An economy in the fast lane has busted open the exclusive club of corporate bosses earning salaries of over $1 million a year in India, with more executives entering it as strong profit growth and a talent shortage forces firms to reward top managers. The number of executives earning more than Rs 4.5 crore a year in pay jumped 54% in fiscal year 2010, with some four dozen new names joining the club, expanding it to 130 members, an ET study of annual disclosures of all publicly listed companies has revealed.

NEW DELHI: Afresh attempt to appoint a chief executive for India's oldest mutual fund, UTI MF , appears to have failed with its institutional investors shooting down the selection panel's recommendation to appoint former Mckinsey India senior advisor Leo Puri, two people familiar with the development said. UTI MF, which manages Rs 70,638 crore, slipped two notches to fifth in assets it manages. The fund has been without a chairman since February 2011 when UK Sinha left it to take over as chairman of the Securities Exchange Board of India.